Diagnostic Convergent Interviewing to Inform Redesign Toward Sustainable Work Systems for Paramedics

Thynne, Lara; Rodwell, John

doi:10.3390/su11143932

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“…This study seeks to surface the key issues that have led to the current aerial firefighting situation in Australia and show the relationships between those issues. Convergent interviewing is a research method that effectively and efficiently identifies a system [44][45][46].…”

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Diagnosing the Institutional Forces Impacting Australia’s Aerial Firefighting Capability

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Climate change is resulting in more wildfires, and increasingly, there are overlapping wildfire seasons between the northern and southern hemispheres. The changing climate is especially impacting the nature of aerial firefighting. This study uses an institutional lens to analyse the resources and structures associated with aerial firefighting in Australia. A set of convergent interviews of subject matter experts surfaced the key issues that have led to the current aerial firefighting situation in Australia and showed the relationships between issues. The convergent interviewing method is used to identify the core, common issues that influence the aerial firefighting system in Australia. The results highlight how aerial firefighting suffers due to the complexities that exist between the states and from a lack of a national strategy. A lack of process standardisation, an overreliance on, often international, LATs and the lack of a coordinated mitigation approach are particularly notable specific issues. Institutional theory suggests that Australia’s aerial firefighting capability has succumbed to isomorphic pressures, with the desire for legitimacy driving ever-increasing institutionalization. To respond to the changing environment, institutional entrepreneurs will be needed to create new norms and significantly change the embedded structures.

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Diagnosing the Institutional Forces Impacting Australia’s Aerial Firefighting Capability

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“…The method, and its considerations, are detailed in [27]. For a recent detailed outline of the processes involved in the method, see [29]. A further benefit of convergent interviewing is that the results can inform change planning by surfacing and organizing issues that are often represented from a systems perspective [26].…”

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Cleaning up Forever Chemicals in Construction: Informing Industry Change

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Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substance (PFAS) contamination has been found in the construction spoil of many major projects, and there is growing concern about the health and environmental implications of these “forever” chemicals. In a context where construction and tunneling have experienced substantial growth, Australia and other countries are still developing their PFAS management. This study used convergent interviews to surface the key common issues that are associated with the management of PFAS contamination in the construction industry. The construction industry appears stuck in their ways and extremely financially driven. Regulation is not working because of poor enforcement and policing from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA could look to employ individuals with more construction industry experience in order to become a strong regulator in the industry, as well as to streamlining decision-making processes, while maintaining quality. To speed up changes in the management of PFASs within the construction industry, large organizations could be targeted by the relevant sustainability rating scheme, and there could be further use of the alliance models to research, develop, and implement PFAS treatment methods.

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“…Alternatively, the research could begin with a set of convergent interviews (see [84]) to surface the core, common integration mechanisms used in a particular context, which may include mechanisms and capabilities beyond those in Table 1 above, and then, once having derived the core, key issues and generated a system model suggesting how the issues are inter-related, the researcher could then apply that coding to a content analysis of secondary documents.…”

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A Configurational Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions

2021

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The processes involved with mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are many, varied and complex. M&A research and practice needs a toolset that can apprehend that complexity and suggest ways forward. This paper shows the complexity of the constituents of organizations at a strategic level by building on the natural-resource-based view (NRBV) and the resulting competences and capabilities. In M&As, these resources and capabilities are managed through a variety of forms of acquisition integration comprised of sets of integration mechanisms. M&As occur in a range of strategic contexts and consequently many forms of integration are possible. Accordingly, there is a need for a mode of inquiry examining acquisition integration that can encompass a wide variety of forms, is holistic across a range of possible integration mechanisms and can provide insights. A configurational mode of inquiry can accommodate the complexity of the mechanisms, capabilities and resources, including natural resources, which constitute acquisition integration. A configurational approach emphasizes a holistic synthesis of elements and highlights the importance of thinking of M&As in terms of patterns. A configurational approach offers tools for considering M&As such as analyzing the thematic coherence of integration and enables the inclusion of sustainability into the logic of organizations.

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Diagnostic Convergent Interviewing to Inform Redesign Toward Sustainable Work Systems for Paramedics

Cited by 8 publications

References 37 publications

Diagnosing the Institutional Forces Impacting Australia’s Aerial Firefighting Capability

Diagnosing the Institutional Forces Impacting Australia’s Aerial Firefighting Capability

Cleaning up Forever Chemicals in Construction: Informing Industry Change

A Configurational Approach to Mergers and Acquisitions

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